bear the palm

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Prynne's fellow pamphleteers, Bastwick and Burton, were not far behind him in the violence of their invectives, but the lawyer must be admitted to bear the palm for sharp sayings.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)

One called "The Pass of the Sierra" may easily bear the palm among much descriptive writing.

From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie

So, too, in laments for the dead, the superior brevity and simplicity of Martial bear the palm away.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

They might contrast it unfavourably with Britain, but as compared with the other colonies, it ought to bear the palm.

From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen

Let him who has won bear the palm.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George